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With spring break over, the Canyon Courier takes a look back at the initial part of the spring season for some of our area teams as they resume play for the remainder of the 2012 season:

GIRLS SOCCER: SIZZLING OUT OF THE GATE
Evergreen’s girls soccer team is off to a flying start, having won four of its first five games and come out of spring break with an undefeated 4-0-1 record.
The Lady Cougars have given up just three goals this season behind 18 saves from freshman goalkeeper Natalie Ulfig.

Sophomore hurler Jake Englehart hurled a no-hitter, finishing one batter shy of a perfect game, as Evergreen capped a three-game spring break trip to Arizona with a 5-0 victory over Cactus (Ariz.) on March 29 in the Greenway Festival.
The complete game was Englehart’s third win of the season. He walked one, while striking out three in facing just one batter over the minimum.

Eric Castillo felt the pain. He saw the swelling on his left knee. But no matter what the pain wouldn’t go away. And, unfortunately, there was an all-too-real reasoning for that.
The now-Clear Creek High School freshman was suffering from Ewing’s Sarcoma, a form of bone cancer that was hindering not only his knee but the tibia bone. The diagnosis came in January 2011 and all but threatened to end his baseball career, even before it truthfully got started.

The federal Safe Routes to School grant program has awarded $250,000 to complete the last part of the NEAT trail from Bergen Village to Bergen Elementary along Sugarbush Drive.

The 0.6-mile walkway is an extension of the existing NEAT trail, which starts at Evergreen Middle School.

"We are so excited after 10 years of thinking about this and breaking it into pieces to get it done; it's something the whole NEAT team has been dreaming about," said Liz Cohen, president of the nonprofit North Evergreen Activity Trails.

The sister of a woman who was seriously injured in a car accident March 14 is imploring authorities to put in a restricted left-turn signal at the intersection of Evergreen Parkway and Highway 103 (Squaw Pass Road.)

Sandy Bruggeman of Evergreen believes there should be a left-turn-on-green-arrow-only light at the intersection where two cars collided, sending three people to the hospital. There is a green arrow, but left turns are allowed when the arrow is off and the green light is on.

The park district unveiled on March 27 a "nonprofit organization/governmental agency rental pricing" chart that it hopes will reduce some of the mystery surrounding what it costs a nonprofit to rent a park-district building.

Over the years, a lot of the pricing decisions have been made on an informal, handshake basis, leading some to question the fairness of the system.

People who want to help owners of the hundreds of homes evacuated in the Lower North Fork Fire can donate non-homemade food or bottled water to the Mountain Resource Center to help the nonprofit stock up for the needs to come.
“People will start calling us once they’re able to get back into their homes (and) find out that their well water isn’t what they can drink right now,” said the MRC’s executive director, Sharon Schrage. “We will get the rush from people needing help in two or three more days.”